"Is frightful..."
Merry Christmas and happy New Year! No Christmas photos this year- the weather here was akin to a monsoon. Flooding and general gloominess killed the mood for us, but at least I did make it out to ride a bit over the past week off work.
My last lesson was a group lesson where Ruby and I were the 'noobs' (everyone else had done the course before):
The only tricky parts of this course were the angle from 4 to 5 and the two corners. At our first attempt going from 6 to 7, I went riiiiiight past 7...by the time I started to turn for the jump it was too late! We figured it out by the next one but geez, tons of outside aids which you have to have already started at the approach to the first jump.
Jumps 10 and 11 were barrels that for sure eat ponies, so we did have a stop at 10 the first time. Let Ruby look at it, and we went over it on the second approach just fine.
Leads are still difficult for me, especially on courses where we are constantly changing directions. I have this really bad habit of leaning to the outside when on the right lead canter; even if I look the correct way over a fence, I am still leaning the wrong way so Ruby picks the lead based on my leg (sorry Ru, I know that's confusing!). Time to sneak a few bareback rides in to work on that.
I know Ruby saw me maybe a little more than she would have liked over the holidays, but I hope everyone was able to enjoy some pony time as well.
Here's to 2016!
